Anything to support my favorite museum curator, Prof. Irving Finkle. Thank you, professor, for yr outreach to American unsophisticates . . . uh . . . well . . . like me.
There didn't appear to be a mention of this in the exhibition, but the Syriac Aramaic reading of the Koran would have fitted quite well with the theme of various groups moving around, ..in this case Syrian Christians being forcibly relocated by an Iranian King to Merv (?), loosing the context and meaning of some of their original texts and evolving into another religion with a different language..perhaps it would make an interesting subject for a future exhibition? Thank you for the beautiful displays , and all the helpful, informative books on the subject in The British Museum shop.
Thank you posting. I will not be able to visit the exposition in person, so this was wonderful. ❤😊
Anything to support my favorite museum curator, Prof. Irving Finkle.
Thank you, professor, for yr outreach to American unsophisticates . . . uh . . . well . . . like me.
There didn't appear to be a mention of this in the exhibition, but the Syriac Aramaic reading of the Koran would have fitted quite well with the theme of various groups moving around, ..in this case Syrian Christians being forcibly relocated by an Iranian King to Merv (?), loosing the context and meaning of some of their original texts and evolving into another religion with a different language..perhaps it would make an interesting subject for a future exhibition?
Thank you for the beautiful displays , and all the helpful, informative books on the subject in The British Museum shop.
Kaftan was adopt3d by Rus fand Vikings rom Scythians and not from Scandinavian.